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TIL about Sarah Rector, an impoverished black girl who became a millionaire oil baron when oil was discovered on the land allotted to her by the government. She avoided hundreds of attempts tp scam her out of her fortune and became known as the “Richest coloured girl in the world.”

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a89xb TIL author Harper Lee once said she regretted writing “To Kill a Mockingbird”, stating to writer Marja Mills, “I wish I’d never written the damn thing.” When Mills subsequently asked her again a few years later, Lee still seemed to express doubts. “Sometimes,” Lee replied. “But then it passes.”
Jr1V TIL in 1998, a Georgia high school student was suspended from school after wearing a Pepsi t-shirt on Coke Day. Upon hearing the news, a Pepsi spokesperson said, “Without knowing all the details, it sounds like (he’s) obviously a trendsetter with impeccable taste in clothes.”
76or TIL Stockholm, Sweden up until 1952 had a massive telephone tower with approx. 5500 telephone lines connected to it
Bg16k TIL actor Northern Calloway, David on Sesame Street took over Hooper’s Store following Mr.H’s sudden passing, died at 41 of exhaustive psychosis, now more commonly called excited delirium syndrome, a “controversial condition” often retrospectively assigned to those who die under restraint in custody
KkJJ TIL: Russian airline Aeroflot has bred their own line of jackal-dog hybrids for bomb-sniffing, there are only 40 in existence all owned by Aeroflot